SGER: Lessons from the Current Debate on the Under-representation of Women in Science

SGER：当前关于科学界女性代表性不足的争论的教训

• 批准号: 0534839
• 负责人: PNINA ABIR-AM
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: ABIRAM PNINA G
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-15 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0534839&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Lessons; Current; Debate; Under

Abstract: Lessons from the Current Debate on the Under-representation of Women in ScienceThis proposal seeks to draw lessons from various facets of the ongoing debate on the under-representation of women in science, a debate raging since January 2005 and including fourmajor university presidents, dozens of academics, many students, various activists for genderequality, and the media. This project will entail systematic interviewing of a wide spectrum ofparticipants on their role in the debate and their understanding of the issues at stake. The project will pay special attention to the absence from this debate of pertinent findings from historical and contemporary scholarship on women in science. The aim is to learn why thedebate erupted when it did; why it will not go away; how can the public debate make contributions to the policy of improving gender equality in science; and how to ensure that past, present, and future scholarship on women in science become routinely accessible to decision makers and public debaters in an effective, engaging, and ongoing manner.The project aims to bridge the gap between the actual availability of extensive scholarship onwomen in science in the last two decades, and its lack of representation as a crucial resource inpublic debates and routine policy making. The project contends that this gap is responsible to a large extent for delaying the impact of well meaning initiatives in public policy, as well as public understanding of why gender equity in science continues to lag despite efforts to address it. The project will extract major themes from a wide range of participants in this debate by means of participant observation at organized debating events, conferences, and organizational initiatives, oral history interviews, and analysis of published literature on the topic. The PI will bring those themes to public attention by organizing a AAAS session on the topic, by circulating the lessons emanating from this debate in the form of a collective volume that will synthesize the myriad issues that surfaced in the course of the debate, and by informing the policy agenda for gender equality in science in the 21st Century with the authentic voices of a broader range of concerned participants. The project is both timely and time dependent. Many conferences and debates have recently taken place in response to the comments of Harvard President Larry Summers, and now is the time for the PI to take advantage of the opportunity to examine these issues. The intellectual merits of the proposal include a gaining a better understanding of howinterdisciplinary scholarship on women in science (by historians, social scientists, gendertheorists, scientists, policy analysts, biographers) affects, or fails to affect, public opinion andstructural changes in science. The broader impact of the project stems from its ability to detectunexpected obstacles to the diffusion and application of findings from basic academic researchon women in science in the civic and policy arenas. Yet another source of broad impact stemsform the project's enabling activity in highlighting a multitude of voices in and out of this debate, so as to enrich the sources of input into the critical issue of gender equality in both science and society.

摘要：从目前关于女性在科学界代表性不足的辩论中吸取的教训这一建议旨在从正在进行的关于女性在科学界代表性不足的辩论的各个方面吸取教训，这场辩论自2005年1月以来一直在激烈进行，包括四位主要大学校长，数十位学者，许多学生，各种性别平等活动家和媒体。 这一项目将需要对广泛的参与者进行系统的访谈，了解他们在辩论中的作用以及他们对所涉问题的理解。该项目将特别注意这场辩论中缺乏关于科学界妇女的历史和当代学术研究的相关结论。目的是了解为什么辩论会爆发;为什么它不会消失;公众辩论如何为改善科学领域的性别平等政策做出贡献;以及如何确保过去，现在和未来的科学女性奖学金成为决策者和公众辩论者的常规访问，该项目旨在弥合过去20年来科学界妇女奖学金的实际可得性与其在公共辩论和日常决策中作为关键资源的代表性不足之间的差距。该项目认为，这一差距在很大程度上延迟了公共政策中善意倡议的影响，以及公众对科学领域性别平等问题的理解，尽管努力解决这一问题，但仍然滞后，该项目将通过参与者在有组织的辩论活动、会议和组织倡议中的观察，从这一辩论的广泛参与者那里提取主要主题，口述历史访谈，并对有关该主题的已发表文献进行分析。公众参与者将通过组织一次关于这一主题的美国科学促进会会议，通过以综合辩论过程中出现的无数问题的集体卷的形式分发从这一辩论中得出的教训，并通过用更广泛的有关参与者的真实声音通报21世纪科学领域性别平等的政策议程，来引起公众对这些主题的关注。 该项目是及时和时间依赖。 许多会议和辩论最近发生在回应哈佛校长拉里萨默斯的评论，现在是时候让PI利用这个机会来研究这些问题。 该提案的知识价值包括更好地理解（历史学家、社会科学家、性别理论家、科学家、政策分析家、传记作家）对科学领域妇女的跨学科研究如何影响或未能影响公众舆论和科学结构变化。该项目更广泛的影响源于其能够发现有关女性科学基础学术研究成果在公民和政策领域传播和应用的预期障碍。另一个产生广泛影响的来源是该项目的扶持活动，突出了辩论内外的各种声音，从而丰富了对科学和社会中性别平等这一关键问题的投入来源。